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Ukrain\u0119 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)<\/p>\n
Ukrain\u0119 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)<\/p>\n
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\u201cWeapons decide who survives,\u201d the Ukrainian leader said. \u201cThere are no security guarantees except friends and weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy spoke from the podium of the vast assembly chamber a day after he met with President Donald Trump, who expressed support for Ukraine\u2019s efforts and criticized Russia. Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader\u2019s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions<\/a> to end the war sparked by President Vladimir Putin\u2019s February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbor.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy did not comment on the surprise U.S. pivot, saying only that he had \u201ca good meeting\u201d with Trump and with many other \u201cstrong leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTogether, we can change a lot,\u201d he said, expressing appreciation for support from the United States. and Europe and urging all U.N. member nations to condemn Russia while it \u201ckeeps dragging this war on.\u201d<\/p>\n If Putin isn\u2019t stopped now, the Ukrainian president warned the assembly that he will keep driving the war forward, \u201cwider and deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine is only the first, and now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Worries about Moldova<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said neighboring Moldova is defending itself again from Russian interference and should not be allowed to move toward dependency on Russia as Georgia and Belarus are. \u201cEurope cannot afford to lose Moldova, too,\u201d he said, stressing that the country needs funding and energy support, not just \u201cpolitical gestures.\u201d<\/p>\n Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelenskyy said, weapons and especially drones \u201care evolving faster than our ability to defend ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n While drones previously were used by major countries, he said, \u201cNow, there are tens of thousands of people who know how to professionally kill using drones.\u201d<\/p>\n Recently, European airports had to shut down because of drones, Zelenskyy said, and last week North Korea announced the test of \u201ca tactical drone\u201d which means even countries with limited resources can build dangerous weapons. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are now living through the most destructive arms race in human history, because this time it includes artificial intelligence,\u201d he said. \u201cCompanies are already working on drones that can shoot down other drones, and it\u2019s only a matter of time — not much — before drones are fighting drones, attacking critical infrastructure and attacking people all by themselves \u2013 fully autonomous and no human involved except the few who control AI system.\u201d<\/p>\n Zelenskyy echoed U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in calling for global rules on how AI can be used in weapons, stressing that \u201cthis is just as urgent as preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n Stopping Putin now is cheaper than trying to protect every port and airport and every ship from drone attacks, and having to build underground schools and health centers as Ukraine has been forced to do to protect its citizens, he said. \u201cStopping Russia now is cheaper than wondering who will be the first to create a simple drone carrying a nuclear warhead.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo we must use everything we have together to force the aggressor to stop, and only then do we have a real chance that this arms race will not end in catastrophe for all of us,\u201d the Ukrainian leader said.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian leader said his country doesn\u2019t have \u201cbig fat missiles dictators love to show off in parades\u201d but it is producing drones that can fly 2,000 to 3,000 kilometers which have been used against Russia.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said Ukraine is building a new security architecture, and more than 30 countries are part of its coalition, and \u201cwe have decided to open up for arms exports \u2013 and these are powerful systems tested in a real war when every international institution failed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told global leaders Wednesday that the world is in \u201cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26741,181,12,16777,1076,793,3,111,1206,963,1208,40479,4870,26091,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508,40477,964,965],"class_list":["post-180482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-government","tag-united-nations","tag-united-nations-general-assembly","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}